Hello!
I am currently overseas and wish to purchase Spore Complete Collection which is currently on sale so I wish to do that via a VPN to protect myself from public WiFi. Would that be fine if I connect to a VPN server in my home country and purchase the game I want?
I've asked support but have yet to receive a reply and the sale will be over soon so I want to know what you guys think

It is complicated and one thing that shows why NOT having a global price is not that smart.

I believe that would be fine. GOG doesn't have that sort of strictly enforced systems like the way some sites do. And since your payment info would match your location, I think that should totally clear it. Since the sale is ending, and if you badly want the game at the sale price now, then you should make that purchase. If anything comes up (doubtfully), you can hash it out with support. But the sale price, on the other hand, won't return in awhile.

As long as your country is where you live when you purchase it's fine, it's only a problem if you try to circumvent regional pricing.

Thanks everyone! :D

If you do not trust, you can also use your mobile plan. But I do not know if the contract allows you to have internet abroad.

Thanks chandra! Appreciate your reply to both the post and the support ticket :D
And thank you GOG for having awesome policies, unlike Steam!

No one would ever trouble you because you used a vpn to have your purchase originate from where they normally do. They would go out of their way not to trouble you if you used your vpn to purchase from a region that exceeded the price of the one where you currently reside.

This is somewhat amusing.

edit: well, on second though, I guess if your normal region was a poisoned one it could be a problem because you could run into some type of blacklist scenario. but I doubt anything like that exists for high-price reigions.

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It's a very good idea to secure yourself on Public Wifi. VPN's are not illegal they are in fact needs to survival in this digital age. What if I want to play the region-locked games? What if my ISP keeps my record my activity and then sell this data to the marketers? What if my ISP keeps throttling my bandwidth just because I am playing games and they consume a lot of bandwidth? What if I am getting DDOSED from my opponents? What if I am traveling and the country I am in has banned my favorite shows and games, how would I access them? What if my communication between devices is not secure and hackers steal all my hard-earned accounts? Also, the most recent which I experience one what would a person do if his/her ISP has blocked the ports which are being used by the game? Then the person has to use the VPN and there is no way around.

All the issues faced by all the users are most probably due to free VPNs. They are cheap, unsecure, not audited by third parties, sell the data to the authorities, does not have enough functionality.

The paid ones are way better, they have VPN Kill Switch as in case of connection drop of whatever reason the VPN Kill Switch will be activated and block all the outgoing data till your connection is revived. This way neither the services nor the authorities will know that you are using VPN.

All the problems all of the users are saying my team and I have been facing for a long time. Now, we are using PureVPN. Its working great now for all of the my above-mentioned questions. Hope this helps you!!

In Steam, this might get you banned. One of the best reasons why people do that, or advice others do it, is better prices in other locales, or regionally banned/censored/locked games. Is a tricky thing to pull off.

Most people at Steam, befriend Russians or Brazilians (best prices hands down) and exchange gift codes, or something.

I myself would advice that route. Is a gamble, because not everybody is honorable... But i myself had a problem in the past, was forced to reside in such a practice (capital controls and money regulations) and it worked. Some community members here, are great people, trustworthy, etc.

Unless of course, GOG doesn't mind you using a VPN

Luck of the chance with a VPN DO NOT use ones that are advertised on TV as these cannot be trusted and they are usually a honeypot.

CyberCriminals USE these to snare you and offshore governments can track you and tie you and others to Illegal activity even if you do not participate

If you’re using a VPN, They’re probably selling your data. All companies exist to make money, A common solution is to store and sell your data, Which defeats the purpose of a VPN for many users.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/05/31/foreign-spies-may-be-hiding-in-your-vpn-warns-dhs/

VPNs should always be used and any traffic sent over their networks should always be encrypted before entering it. In the US, most ISPs can not be trusted to not monitor connections and scrape info from them. They do so passively and without notifying users what they are doing. That info gets passed on to companies willing to pay for it and whatever governmental agencies interested in obtaining it.
Using a VPN prevents local ISPs from doing that and using always-on encryption prevents the VPN providers from doing the same.

I think a lot of people assume that because a VPN changes their apparent location online, it therefore makes them anonymous and keeps them private from everyone, including the VPN provider itelf.

It’s appealing to assume that cybersecurity is that simple – in the same way that people download the Tor Browser and imagine it’s an all-you-need invisibility blanket.

Ironically, I’ve even heard people who have chosen a VPN provider specifically to help them watch TV illegally (by pretending they’re in another country) arguing that the provider must also, ispo facto, have their personal cybersecurity at heart, and therefore that their identity is sure to be safe. I guess it’s inconvenient to stop and think that someone who’s knowingly helping you to violate copyright rules might just choose to throw you under the bus to save themselves if the cops in their country come knocking…

(NB. I am not suggesting or implying that VPN providers are rogues “just because”. I am merely noting that there seems to be a willingness on the part of many people to assume that no VPN provider could ever sell them out *even if the provider wanted to*. In other words, VPNs seem to have been dusted with some sort of cybersecurity magic, whoever is running them, and where, and for whom. In three words: stop, think, connect.)

https://www.howtogeek.com/342731/dont-use-facebooks-onavo-vpn-its-designed-to-spy-on-you/

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29

If you're suggesting doing this on Gog, don't bother. Gift codes cost the normal price instead of the slashed prices for me, exactly to keep people from abusing these codes to get prices lower than they would regularly pay.

Well, technically there's still potential for abuse for someone from a country that pays higher than US prices, but there is no need to involve a brazilian or a russian for that. An american will pay just the same value.

If I'm not mistaken Steam faces the same problem with a different solution. As far as I know Steam keys are regionally restricted.

Dunno about GOG, since my interest concerning region-locked games is through Steam. From what I can figure out, purchasing via VPN is grounds for an account to be terminated. However, that only applies to an account whose creation point is from the wrong parts of the world. If you created an second account via VPN from the location you prefer, that secondary account should be safe. Of course, you will have to make purchases, activation, and downloads within the VPN for that secondary account.

That is the gist of it for Steam VPN gaming. I want to pick up a copy of Super Robot Wars V and Dead or Alive Extreme 3, but us Westerners are not allowed to buy them without jumping through these hoops.